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ExtraHop Reveal(x) vs Trend Micro Deep Discovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 6, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.5
ExtraHop Reveal(x) enhances MTTR and ROI by swiftly identifying issues, benefiting finance firms but costly for healthcare.
Sentiment score
6.7
Trend Micro Deep Discovery enhances threat visibility and detection, effectively preventing substantial losses from ransomware, spam, and phishing.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.6
Users highly rate ExtraHop Reveal(x) support for reliable, knowledgeable, and efficient issue resolution, despite occasional time zone delays.
Sentiment score
6.6
Trend Micro Deep Discovery support is praised for responsiveness and effectiveness, with some users noting a need for quicker responses.
I would rate their technical support nine out of ten.
Network Consultant at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
If I were to rate them from 0 to 10, I would give them a nine or a ten.
Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.5
ExtraHop Reveal(x) is scalable and manages up to 100GB, though cost and upgrades may pose challenges for some users.
Sentiment score
7.4
Trend Micro Deep Discovery is scalable but may face limitations due to network design, integration costs, and organizational needs.
If it doesn't support scalability, Trend Micro will recommend an upgraded hardware version, requiring only a simple payment for the new appliance.
Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
ExtraHop Reveal(x) is highly stable and reliable, consistently performing well with regular updates, despite minor hardware issues.
Sentiment score
8.3
Trend Micro Deep Discovery is praised for stability and performance, with users appreciating its threat intelligence and consistent updates.
The product updates and security updates are kept current, allowing us seamless integration with Trend Micro and getting daily updates and signatures without problems.
Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

ExtraHop Reveal(x) needs improvements in integrations, flexibility, reporting, pricing, and cloud capabilities, while offering better training options.
Trend Micro Deep Discovery needs better integration, user-friendliness, scalability, pricing, support, speed, and IT infrastructure compatibility.
Currently, we have to check manually as we do not receive any notifications about new patches, maintenance, or firmware releases.
Network Consultant at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
I would like to see improvements in areas where events are getting dropped; we're not able to view complete insights.
Assistant VP, Idm Compliance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is not scalable as it is an agent product rather than a product designed for scalability.
Owner at Darcom
We have multiple components such as Deep Discovery Email Inspector for mail gateways, Deep Discovery Analyzer for sandboxing, and Deep Discovery Inspector, which serves as an IDS detecting malicious network traffic.
Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise buyers find ExtraHop Reveal(x) costly, with escalating costs for scaling and specific features, despite robust capabilities.
Trend Micro Deep Discovery pricing varies with requirements, seen as reasonable for advanced features but higher than standard antivirus.
The solution is very expensive.
Owner at Darcom
I do not consider it an expensive tool; its price is justified based on the capabilities that we receive when compared to another mail gateway or other vendors.
Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

ExtraHop Reveal(x) offers seamless integration, powerful analytics, and machine learning for effective threat detection and comprehensive network visibility.
Trend Micro Deep Discovery provides intuitive installation, strong threat detection, and comprehensive visibility, enhancing security across multiple platforms with responsive support.
If I want to know a specific IP and which server it has been connected to, it's easy to gather those kinds of trees from the NDR.
Assistant VP, Idm Compliance at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution offers a friendly GUI for security features.
Network Consultant at a non-profit with 201-500 employees
The most valuable capabilities of Trend Micro Deep Discovery Email Inspector include its ability to perform mail detection and mail filtration against various email attacks such as phishing and spam, serving as an email gateway for both inbound and outbound traffic.
Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
This solution allows us to see anomalies, network traffic in our network, and zero-day threats.
Owner at Darcom
 

Categories and Ranking

ExtraHop Reveal(x)
Ranking in Network Detection and Response (NDR)
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (6th)
Trend Micro Deep Discovery
Ranking in Network Detection and Response (NDR)
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) (6th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (16th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Network Detection and Response (NDR) category, the mindshare of ExtraHop Reveal(x) is 7.9%, down from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Trend Micro Deep Discovery is 3.4%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Detection and Response (NDR) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ExtraHop Reveal(x)7.9%
Trend Micro Deep Discovery3.4%
Other88.7%
Network Detection and Response (NDR)
 

Featured Reviews

Henri Heuvel - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at Axians
Cloud-based administration streamlines network security management
ExtraHop Reveal(x) can improve regarding integration capabilities. For instance, the market is getting really flooded with Microsoft Sentinel, and I know there is an integration possible, but the tools on the market right now indicate that integration should not be a skill from an integrator point of view. It should be quite easy for customers to integrate that solution into SOCs, SIEMs, or any other integration with other tools. There are various integrations from which there's a manual on how to do it, but specifically, the Microsoft portfolio, particularly Sentinel, integration is not yet there. If you score them on a scale of one to ten, ExtraHop scores around a 7.5 to an 8 on an integration basis, but there's actually room for improvement on that side. In the older days, ExtraHop had a license model where you could do all you can eat, so if you had a sensor with 10 gig of capacity, you could use all the entire 10 gig of throughput. They changed that to an asset-based license model, and that's an absolute downside of the solution, where it is harder for smaller companies to acquire the solution itself. That has given us quite some problems in positioning the solution properly within the network, so the licensing model is an absolute downside where they need to improve.
reviewer2266119 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Has improved email security through advanced filtration and timely threat detection
I work with Trend Micro Apex One. I have used the Deep Discovery's Sandbox analysis feature, and we utilize another appliance known as Deep Discovery Analyzer, abbreviated as DDA. This tool makes analysis for URLs and attachments contained in inbound emails, so whenever we receive an email with a URL or attachment, it will be analyzed by Trend Micro Deep Discovery Analyzer. In evaluating Deep Discovery's real-time visibility on network traffic, it is important to note that we applied our Deep Discovery Analyzer for Trend Micro to conduct sandboxing specifically for email channels only, and we do not utilize it for network channels. For network channel sandboxing, we use a solution called FortiAnalyzer, which belongs to another team called network security. I assess Deep Discovery's effectiveness in identifying sophisticated attack patterns by looking at how it handles high traffic loads, and how effectively it can use its instances and images to analyze numerous URLs and attachments simultaneously. Additionally, I evaluate its ability to maintain round-robin or load balancing across different analyses without leaving samples queued for analysis. The performance is critical when the product updates for signatures are up-to-date, as this aids in the detection and classification of URLs and attachments without delay in the analysis process. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Trend Micro Deep Discovery a nine.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Healthcare Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?
We just did an assessment for our 47 datacenters around North America. The top two enterprise-level network monitoring solutions were ExtraHop first, Riverbed SteelCenter second. Their negotiated c...
What open source tool can one use to measure bandwidth from one's upstream service provider?
One I am looking closely at is AppNeta. They have an appliance that can digest the flow and do a better job than Netflow. The other one we are using is ExtraHop. This has both a Datacenter Hig...
What do you like most about ExtraHop Reveal(x)?
With ExtraHop Reveal(x), it gives me more visibility into the packets. It doesn't provide the entire packet capture, but it offers more information on how connections are made at the network layer....
What do you like most about Trend Micro Deep Discovery?
The tool's most valuable feature is its collaboration with other products. Integrating with other security products was simple and easy.
What needs improvement with Trend Micro Deep Discovery?
Server Protect is not commonly used. When considering the Sandbox feature, it only inspects small files, and not all types of files are supported. The solution is very expensive. The solution is no...
 

Also Known As

Reveal(x), Revealx
Trend Micro Deep Discovery Inspector, Trend Micro Deep Discovery Analyzer
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Wood County Hospital
Allied Telesis, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Babou, Blekinge County Council, Delacour, Hiroshima Prefectural Government, Live Nation Entertainment Inc., Mazda Motor Logistics Europe, McGill University Health Centre, Mikuni Corporation, OKWAVE, Sinar Mas Land, SWICA, UTOC Corporation
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